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September 25, 2010
Bipolar Disorder Associated With Reduced Socioeconomic Status
MedWire (9/24, Cowen) reports that, according to a study published online in the Journal of Affective Disorders, "individuals with bipolar disorder (BD) have lower socio-economic status than the general population."
In a study of "257 patients with BD (51.4% women), aged at least 18 years," whose marital status and levels of education, income, and disability were compared to those of 56,540 matched controls from the general population, researchers found that people with BD earned less money and were "more likely to be single and receiving a disability pension," despite the fact that both patients with BD and the population sample had similar levels of education.
Posted by admin at September 25, 2010 05:03 PM